yves & claude

[noirges]

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[midway]

It's not like I don't work hard in my own way.

[ ))): ]

[noirges]

I never said you didn't. Still, isn't it easier to relate to people if you've literally walked in their shoes?

[midway]

I don't have any misconceptions about raising crops being easy...

Anyway, I'm willing to try.

[noirges]

Great!

[ because they're making it over to the gardening shed that i've decided is here and yves is going to rifle through it for supplies. he finds a pair of actual gardening gloves instead of claude's elegant white ones and offers them out ]

We can do something fun and relaxing after. That's one of the best parts of a hard day's work.

[midway]

[ He will accept one of the gloves. ]

Fun and relaxing? I'm going to need more details to stay motivated.

[noirges]

Should we go... drinking? Hot spring? Beach? Spa day?

[ yves is already rolling up his sleeves and grabbing his own pair of gloves as well as some garden shovels and packets of seeds...

continues rattling things off until claude stops him ]

Tea? Dinner? Dancing?

[midway]

I wouldn't mind a soak in the springs now that you mention it...

[ he wants to be boiled like a crab ]

[noirges]

I haven't gotten to try it yet! Adolphe was too shy when I asked.

[ unclear if that's what happened

but he puts all the necessary things for farming into a lil wheel barrow ]

I think it'd be good for tired muscles, too.

[midway]

Shy?

[ ?? About... your body? Can't relate. Anyway, just watches Yves do all the work. ]

You're right in that. I do miss the strain of an exhausted body after a long day of training.

[noirges]

Adolphe was surprisingly shy…

[ was he… yves is saying so with a gremlin smile

but he’ll bring their supplies over to an empty row of soil and reach out ]

Need help with your glove, Claude?

[ makes the guy with a broken arm do labor ]

[midway]

[ Humming, and just following along after him. ]

No, I can get it on all right.

[ He is waiting for instruction. ]

[noirges]

[ yippee!! then yves will offer claude a spade once he gets his glove on. ]

Then you can watch me for the process of planting. Then we’ll water them all and call it a day!

[ but yves plans on sowing an entire row and then some so this will,, take a second,,

HANDWAVES AN EXPLANATION… yves just talks like someone who’s truly spent so much time around plants, explaining cross-breeding as he goes. lil farmer guy ]

[midway]

[ He will listen! And do as instructed... without much enthusiasm.

Looking at the recently planted plots. ]

You and Lucas both have nurturing sides in different ways, hm?

[noirges]

[ amused: ] I'll have you know I'm also great with kids.

But I guess so. Are you saying you don't, Claude?

[midway]

That's not really surprising.

[ Sits down and stretches out his legs. ]

Not really. I'm not good with children, and I've never had an interest in raising plants or anything.

[noirges]

[ joins claude in his sit!! also streeeetching, though he's already pretty flexible ]

You seem like you already had a lot going on. Looking after a country and... war? [ in what glimpses he could articulate after cyoa, and yves picked up context clues ]

Nobody can be good at everything.

[midway]

Yeah, I think it's sweet you two are so nurturing though. There's definitely satisfaction to be had in watching something grow under your care.

[ Actually, ]

I guess I have raised a couple wyverns.

[noirges]

Wyverns...?

[ he's way too normal for that ]

[midway]

They're like horse-sized dragons. We use them as steeds where I'm from.

[noirges]

[ WHAT ]

What.... Dragons?! That's so amazing....!

[midway]

[ Laughs. ]

I think so too. Galloping on horseback certainly isn't dull, but I've gotten used to the views of flying up high.

[noirges]

I've never even dreamed of it...

[ a little awed ]

I wish I could see, too. Maybe we could've left our island and gotten more help if it was possible to take to the skies.

[midway]

You've never left the island?

[ Head tilt. ]

Because of the curse?

[noirges]

Lots of reasons?

The waters around the island make it hard to access in general, but then the curse made us isolated because people thought it would spread. Then there were the Relivers, which Scien didn't want his technology leaving the island...

We only ever had one person in our recorded history come to our island from the outside, and we call him the Drifter.

[midway]

[ claude: inbreeding...? what is the population of this island? ]

The Drifter? Did people ostracize him?